MiniBB Review

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Install: Negative (Hard) — Admin: Negative (Hard)
Use: Positive (Normal) — Themes: Yes Yes
Our Opinion : FullFullHalfNoneNone — Users : FullFullNoneNoneNone (Rate it)
— Thu, 2006-07-06 19:07 — lastnico

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Installation : Negative (Hard)
Administration : Negative (Hard)
Forum Use : Positive (Normal)
Themes : Yes Yes
Our Opinion : FullFullHalfNoneNone
Users : FullFullNoneNoneNone (Rate it)
Released under : GPL License
Current version : 2.0 (July 4, 2006).
Demonstration : MiniBB Demo
From MiniBB website : Want to make your own discussion board? miniBB ( = mini bulletin board) is a free forum software, original PHP message board script, you can build online community on. Security, speed and stability - three S's of our conferencing software concepts. Based on original technology, miniBB provides everything to make your web discussions fast, simple and attractive for visitors. First of all, it's a content- and support-oriented board.
Official web site : http://www.minibb.net
Download Link : Download this forum software here : MiniBB.

Server Architecture

Features Details
Operating Systems Details
Systems supporting this software.
  • Linux
  • Windows XP
Web Server Details
Web Servers control the communication between the forum and the users.
  • Apache 1.3
  • Apache 2.0/2.2
Languages Details
Main development language.
  • PHP 4
  • PHP 5
Databases Details
Applications which store forum datas.
  • MySQL

Technical Features

Technical Features Details
CMS / Blog softwares integration Details
Web publishing tools which can be integrated with this software.
None
User base integration Details
This feature is useful when you would like to integrate your forum with an existing solution.
None
Template Engine Details
With known template engines, it is generally easier to customize forum and create new themes.
None
Webservices / XML-RPC management Details
Generally allow remote control from other softwares than browsers (program, etc...)
No

Comments

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The goal of

Thu, 2007-03-08 12:39 — lastnico

The goal of forum-software.org is not to give good marks to forum used by someone.

If a feature is not present in a forum software, it has to be said, so I don't understand why it's a problem for you to inform public that some interested features are not present. Someone like you who would like to have a simple forum will probably use PunBB or MiniBB, maybe because he would have see that some useless features are not present, so it needs to be said, even if you disagree

Forum-Software.org Administrator.

very innacurate review which is not true actually

Sun, 2007-01-28 12:20 — jeveux

This is a very innacurate review of the forum software I am using for 5 years already and could say it is much-much better in comparison what I've used previously.

Installation takes only couple of minutes and I don't know what could be damn simpler than that.

CMS / Blog softwares integration also User base integration could be done customly in almost all cases (of course professional skills are needed, but this is not the topic where a damn newbie should act). AFAIK miniBB is one of the few forum softwares whose authors really CARED about incorporation into 3rd party apps without destroying the core algorithms and scripts (as least it worked for my site perfectly).

Template Engine - None? It's completely templates driven, miniBB's own parsing engine is death simple, it can not be even compared by the speed with Smarty for example.

Syndication - it has RSS feeds addon with many variations.

Poll Creation - already received a note from authors there will be a super-addon never seen in other software.

Private Messages - the addon is available many times ago.

Custom BBCodes - AFAIK there is no problem with it. It can handle any code you program.

User Management - User Groups - that is not true. There are only some "special" users who can be mods, and there is only one admin-user. I don't care it's limited and the software is designed not to handle user groups and other users stuff... it's a CONTENT-ORIENTED board, that's the true and that's what I always needed in the term of SEO etc... I didn't care about the users or groups in general.

User List - there is an addon called "members list".

Anonymous Posting - No? damn... THAT'S THE MAIN POLITICS OF THIS BOARD! It has anonymous postings allowed BY DEFAULT!!!

Email Notifications - No?.. Absolutely not true. It has so powerful notifications system and easy at once.

Instant Messaging - No... well, no actually, but I don't need who cares about it on a bulletin board.

Captcha Protection - of course there IS an addon related.

File attachment with posts - that feature can be added with the plugin.

User Ranks - I don't doubt everything needed is included already, so it's in your own hands.

User Avatars - addon exists. User Signatures - addon exists.

It really the best forum software I ever seen. Of course it's a bit limited (you can not have EVERYTHING in 200 Kb package), but it offers much much more than other forum programs. And I definitely like the "minimalism"/zen idea which I naturally have been grown from.

additionally

Sun, 2007-01-28 12:19 — jeveux

and yes, the latest release contains no ads in the title... in general they always may be removed with no claims....